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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) [Full Reaction] (Patreon)

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2026-07-09 20:00:08
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2026-07-10 01:41:16
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Farewell, Indy. 🫡🥹

I'm looking forward to your thoughts on this one and hearing how you rank all of these movies below. 🥰 Thank you for joining me with this series! It's been so fun.

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Nathan Jasper

This one hit me just as emotionally as Last Crusade did. Indy wanting to stay and, when told he needs to go back, him saying "For who?" just hits so hard. Plus I'm a sucker for time travel! My personal ranking: 3 1 5 2 4 None are bad in my eyes but someone's gotta be on the bottom.

Tyler Foster

Personally, I don't even need Crystal Skull. I would just skip from Last Crusade right to this one and feel fine about it. It's a shame Spielberg didn't direct it but I thought James Mangold did a good job, even if Ford is clearly getting long in the tooth for some of the action. Main thing is the epilogue ending is perfect, IMO. I also think the prologue is pretty neat even if the de-aging can look a little wonky (and it's bizarre they decided to just ignore the age in his voice). Been awhile since I've seen it (I expected to find a physical copy in a pawnshop at some point but still haven't), so I'm looking forward to rewatching this after work.

Aaron Duenas

My personal ranking from best to worst: -Last Crusade -Raiders of the Lost Ark -Temple of Doom -Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny It’s hard to say which I dislike more between the last two, because I hated Crystal Skull, but at least it tried to wrap up these films. Dial of Destiny had a few interesting ideas and a couple of interesting new characters, particularly with that cool agent and Antonio Banderas, but this was an unnecessary sequel. This has the same problems as Crystal Skull, such as no chemistry between the main characters, over reliance of CGI, and having an old Harrison Ford coming back to be this role is just sad to watch for me. I didn’t bother seeing this in theaters, and nobody else did as this was one of the most expensive films to make that year and bombed pretty hard. I don’t know if this is worse than Crystal Skull, but it’s just a dull snore fest to me. I’ll still go watch the first three Indiana Jones films and say that it ends with Last Crusade, as to me, that was a perfect ending for Indy

Movies with KL

I still think Last Crusade had a solid ending, but for two additional movies, the way they wrapped it up here was very good. I also agree that I'd be fine without Crystal Skull too.

Bryan Dempsey

I can’t bring myself to rewatch this one. But I will watch your thoughts.

HugoBoss435

Terrible movie. Didn’t like it at all.

Jason Pratt

I haven’t seen this one. I’m not saying I’ll never watch, I’m just saying not today. Off the other 4, my ranking is 1,3,2,4.

Movies with KL

Very fair. Well, feel free to comment on this again when you do eventually watch it!

Tyler Foster

Main thing that drags this one down a bit is that the action never quite hits the way I want it to. The wide shots mostly look pretty decent but then the close-ups all look composited in a bad way, and the tone that many are going for, especially the big tuktuk chase, the movie just doesn't quite get there. Also, my opinion of the de-aging, while convincing at times, goes down each viewing. In some ways, I wonder if the problem is that Hollywood has too many resources and too much money. There was this YouTube user, Shamook, who used to post his improvements on de-aging in movies. I read that he was hired by Disney, yet the work here still falls below the look of the stuff in his YouTube videos. My suspicion is that maybe a little less is more, and the actual big blockbuster movies cannot resist going past "less." That said, on this viewing, my understanding of the themes and what Harrison might've wanted to put into it (as this was apparently a bit of a passion project for him, that he wanted to do one more Indy on a personal level) really grew. My take on the movie is that it relates to the thing you caught onto a little, which is Voller continually saying "us." My feeling is that Harrison feels very similar to Indy looking at the space craze and feeling out-of-touch with the world around him. Harrison has always spoken about acting as essentially a service sort of role. He's there to serve the script, serve the story, serve the director, and that being *functional*, having a use, fitting into the role he's been given, is more important to him than being a movie star, something we see sort of echoed in the clock and appreciation he gets from his peers: nice, but for him, not really the point. To make matters worse, when he meets someone who relates to the same feeling that the world around them is not what they'd envisioned and who yearns for a time in the past, it's someone like Voller, whose ideas of why we should go back and to what are distinctly different than Indy's. The thing about the climax is that even if Indy believes he's doing it for a different reason, going back to the past and staying there isn't healthy. He and Voller have nothing in common, but what Indy wants to do for that moment in the past is the same thing: move backward, instead of forward. Even at his age, he still ought to keep moving forward. I also forgot the beautiful little exchange in the bar, tipping its hat to Last Crusade: "Why would you go after the thing that drove your father crazy?" "Wouldn't you?"

LelaTheSpoon

I LOVE this movie. It easily became my most watched movie in theaters, overtaking The Last Jedi. I saw this about 5 times in theaters. I could write a whole essay on why this movie works, especially in the characters. I wholeheartedly don't get what people didn't like about it, it has everything people would want from an Indy movie. What this movie really really has is heart. I love Helena. A lot. She's so fun. (And gives great compliments, by the way!). People seem to miss that in this stage in her life she's in the exact same stage in her own adventures that Indy is during Temple of Doom. She's focused on her "fortune and glory". She even has her own Short Round in the form of Teddy! (Her story about how she met Teddy is extremely similar to how Indy says he met Short Round in ToD). And of course Indy's story is the core of what makes this movie work. He goes most of this movie thinking he lives in a world that doesn't need him any more. He's retiring, no one is paying attention to history due to the space age, and of course he's been through family tragedy. When Indy says that "Marion's grief brought an end to their marriage", I fully believe he's bending the truth and it was actually his grief that caused the rift. It just sounds more like the character to me, and I feel supported by Marion at the end asking "Are you back, Indy?". He wants to stay in Archimedes' time because he feels like he doesn't have a world to return to in 1969. Helena at the end shows him that he has people that still loves him and needs him by getting everyone together. Anyways not trying to make a whole essay like I said I could. Great reaction as always! Glad you enjoyed it at least!